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PAPERBACK ISBN: 0-88258-039-6 $23.95 Pub Date: 1998	Black Writers and Latin America: Cross-Cultural Affinities by Richard Jackson Black Writers and Latin America: Cross-Cultural Affinities begins by examining the influence of Africa and Spain on the literatures of Black writers in the U.S. and Latin America. Author Richard Jackson explores the reciprocal exchange of influences among artists of African descent in the United States and in Latin America—from established writers to a new generation of writers, including Richard Wright, Paule Marshall, Henry Dumas, Nicolas Guillen, Nelson Estupinan Bass and Nancy Moréjon. The interplay of influences among African American men and women of letters and people of the Afro-Hispanic world reveals the international dimension of their literatures, with their sources in Africa and in common New World experiences of slavery, racism and colonialism. The breadth of the cross-cultural comparisons provided in this work makes it the most comprehensive source available on African-ancestral literature in the Americas. About the Author Richard Jackson is professor, Department of Spanish, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Jackson received a Research Achievement Award from Carleton that allowed him to complete the work on this volume. He is a founder of the Afro-Hispanic Review.


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